Those are nice publications with strong brands and loyal, if
small, audiences.

But Ross
Levinsohn was running Yahoo, a
$20 billion company with 700 million users, only months before.
Also Levinsohn has
always been a guy who likes to make big, splashy
industry-changing deals. He once sold MySpace's
ad inventory to Google for
$900 million.

What was he doing running a collection of trade publications?

It turns out Levinsohn is actually up to something more exciting.

He's got a huge sack of cash stuffed with billions of dollars,
and he's out looking for media companies to buy with it.

A source in the deals community tells us Levinsohn is looking at
companies from Hulu to Vox,
the parent company of The Verge and SB
Nation.

We weren't told so, but you have to figure Buzzfeed is also on
his radar.